Karoly Beregfy

Karoly Beregfy (12 February 1888-12 March 1946) was Minister of Defense of Hungary from 16 October 1944 to 30 April 1945, succeeding Lajos Csatay and preceding Janos Voros.

Biography
Karoly Beregfy was born in Cservenka, Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Crvenka, Vojvodina, Serbia) on 12 February 1888 to a family of Danube Swabians; his original last name was Berger. He was seriously wounded in World War I while serving in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and he joined the Hungarian Red Army during the 1918-1919 revolutions. From 1939 to 1941, he was commandant of the Royal Military Academy, and he commanded the Hungarian Third Army from June 1943 to May 1944 and the Hungarian First Army from May to August 1944. He was an Arrow Cross Party sympathizer, and Ferenc Szalasi appointed him Minister of Defense on 16 October 1944. On 30 April 1945, he was captured by the US Army, and he was turned over to the Hungarian government, which hanged him on March 1946.